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A drama about the high street’s favourite sex shop Ann Summers is coming (!) to your telly.

If you’ve ever wanted to know how the parties where you’re taught to test a vibrator on your nose (apparently if it makes you sneeze that means it’ll give you the big O) or where you play games like wearing a candle like a strap-on and trying to fit it into a milk bottle without using your hands came about, ITV is creating a drama that will answer all of those questions for you.

The six-parter will delve into what happened when CEO Jacqueline Gold took over to overhaul the shop’s once seedy reputation and created the legendary Ann Summers parties 30 years ago.

It’ll be called Brief Encounter, and will be loosely based on Gold’s memoir Good Vibrations. It’ll follow four women who started selling lingerie and sex toys in people’s homes via parties.

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Executive Producer Arabella McGuigan said: ‘Brief Encounters is gutsy, emotional, warm and surprising. Like the real Ann Summers saleswomen, through their camaraderie our women discover hidden strengths and an ability to come out fighting no matter what life throws at you. As wives, mothers and businesswomen they unleash talent and ambition – and they blossom.’

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The show will follow shy Steph who uses selling sex toys and undies at parties as a way of building confidence, and Pauline, who finds herself out of her comfort zone when she does Steph a favour and hosts a party.